Good Thursday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by Chevron.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

Tony Fabrizio, who polled for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, released an interesting data point on Twitter yesterday.

He tweeted polling about the president standing against other Republicans, which found 54% of definite Republican primary voters would vote for Trump,

13% would vote for Ted Cruz, and 10% would vote for Ohio Governor John Kasich.

Just 49% said they definitely vote for Trump while 20% of voters are undecided.

Fewer than 60% of Republican primary voters want Trump to be the nominee again in 2020,

and it's August 2017. This poll is measuring against a field. It's not even head to head.

We've got a first in playbook this morning, Andy Hemming. The White House Rapid Response Director is out.

Hemming left his job Monday. A source familiar with the move told us it was a mutually agreed upon

separation.

Meanwhile, Energy Secretary Rick Perry is leading a presidential delegation to Kazakhstan and then heading on to the Ukraine next week and is bringing his wife, daughter, son-in-law, and friends.

The Energy Department tells Playbook that Perry's family and friends will be reimbursing the

government for all costs associated with the trip.

Our colleague Alex Eisenstadt reports from Phoenix that Trump met with potential challengers to

Senator Jeff Flake before his Phoenix rally. We have to imagine this will deepen the ongoing

beef between Mitch McConnell and the president. McConnell and Trump put out statements yesterday

that they remain committed to many shared priorities and goals. The White House said the

president would meet with Mitch McConnell, but that meeting was scheduled before all this.

Whiplash is the word of the day. The New York Times and the Washington Post are up with

stories this morning using that to describe Trump. Phil Rucker writes, Trump's whiplash, three

personas and three speeches, but the same president. While Mark Landler of the New York Times writes,

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